Best Arc Analytics Podcasts (2025)

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Anthropic's Surprise Hit: How Claude Code Became an AI Coding Powerhouse 1:00:16

2d ago1:00:16

1:00:16

What happens when an internal hack turns into a $400 million AI rocket ship? In this episode, Matt Turck sits down with Boris Cherny, the creator of Claude Code at Anthropic, to unpack the wild story behind the fastest-growing AI coding tool on the planet. Boris reveals how Claude Code started as a personal productivity tool, only to become Anthrop…

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Episode 353: Return to the Woods 51:06

2d ago51:06

51:06

Join Frank and Peter as they return to the woodland of Root and the distant reaches of space for Arcs. We've been playing lots of both games by Leder Games, and thought we'd reflect on the experience and some of how it links to Arkham (or not). Amazing logo courtesy of this guy Join Drawn to the Flame on Patreon: www.patreon.com/drawntotheflame Buy…

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Episode 352: Diving into The Drowned City 39:21

16d ago39:21

39:21

Join Peter and Frank for their post-Drowned City takes. Spoiler warning: we're talking about a first time through The Drowned City and sharing our thoughts, so we'll of course spoil elements of the campaign. Amazing logo courtesy of this guy Join Drawn to the Flame on Patreon: www.patreon.com/drawntotheflame Buy Drawn to the Flame shirts, jumpers a…

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Ex‑DeepMind Researcher Misha Laskin on Enterprise Super‑Intelligence | Reflection AI 1:06:29

23d ago1:06:29

1:06:29

What if your company had a digital brain that never forgot, always knew the answer, and could instantly tap the knowledge of your best engineers, even after they left? Superintelligence can feel like a hand‑wavy pipe‑dream— yet, as Misha Laskin argues, it becomes a tractable engineering problem once you scope it to the enterprise level. Former Deep…

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The Rise of Agentic Commerce — Emily Glassberg Sands (Stripe) 1:15:14

30d ago1:15:14

1:15:14

Agentic commerce is no longer science fiction — it’s arriving in your browser, your development IDE, and soon, your bank statement. In this episode of The MAD Podcast, Matt Turck sits down with Emily Glassberg Sands, Stripe’s Head of Information, to explore how autonomous “buying bots” and the Model Context Protocol (MCP) are reshaping the very mec…

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AI Engineering Revolution: Winners, Chaos & What’s Next | FirstMark 49:53

1M ago49:53

49:53

Welcome to a special FirstMark Deep Dive edition of the MAD Podcast. In this episode, Matt Turck and David Waltcher unpack the explosive impact of generative AI on engineering — hands-down the biggest shift the field has seen in decades. You’ll get a front-row seat to the real numbers and stories behind the AI code revolution, including how compani…

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Episode 351: Cascade 40:34

1M ago40:34

40:34

Join Frank and Peter as they look at a new keyword for Arkham that yes, doesn't exist, and yes, is made up by them, but also hopefully makes for interesting discussion around what makes a good keyword and the copious design space in the game. Amazing logo courtesy of this guy Join Drawn to the Flame on Patreon: www.patreon.com/drawntotheflame Buy D…

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Guillermo Rauch: Why Software Development Will Never Be the Same 1:45:40

1M ago1:45:40

1:45:40

In this episode, Vercel CEO Guillermo Rauch goes deep on how V0, their text-to-app platform, has already generated over 100 million applications and doubled Vercel’s user base in under a year. Guillermo reveals how a tiny SWAT team inside Vercel built V0 from scratch, why “vibe coding” is making software creation accessible to everyone (not just en…

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Inside Canva’s $3B ARR AI Design Rocketship — CTO Brendan Humphreys on Magic Studio & Canva Code 56:38

2M ago56:38

56:38

Canva just announced $3 billion in ARR, 230 million monthly active users, and 24 million paying subscribers—including 95% of the Fortune 500. Even more impressive? They’ve been profitable for seven years while growing at 40–50% per year. In this episode, Canva’s Head of Engineering, Brendan Humphreys, reveals how he went from employee #12 to leadin…

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GitHub CEO: The AI Coding Gold Rush, Vibe Coding & Cursor 1:04:46

2M ago1:04:46

1:04:46

AI coding is in full-blown gold-rush mode, and GitHub sits at the epicenter. In this episode, GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke tells Matt Turck how a $7.5 B acquisition in 2018 became a $2 B ARR rocket ship, and reveals how Copilot was born from a secret AI strategy years before anyone else saw the opportunity. We dig into the dizzying pace of AI innovatio…

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Inside the Paper That Changed AI Forever - Cohere CEO Aidan Gomez on 2025 Agents 1:02:24

2M ago1:02:24

1:02:24

What really happened inside Google Brain when the “Attention is All You Need” paper was born? In this episode, Aidan Gomez — one of the eight co-authors of the Transformers paper and now CEO of Cohere — reveals the behind-the-scenes story of how a cold email and a lucky administrative mistake landed him at the center of the AI revolution. Aidan sha…

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Episode 350: Survey the Area 1:07:18

2M ago1:07:18

1:07:18

Join Frank and Peter as they puzzle over: how does one evaluate a campaign? What makes a good campaign? Is it something we can even judge? And what leads to a campaign being ranked 'bad'? Who comes up with this stuff? Amazing logo courtesy of this guy Join Drawn to the Flame on Patreon: www.patreon.com/drawntotheflame Buy Drawn to the Flame shirts,…

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AI That Ends Busy Work — Hebbia CEO on “Agent Employees” 48:24

2M ago48:24

48:24

What if the smartest people in finance and law never had to do “stupid tasks” again? In this episode, we sit down with George Sivulka, founder of Hebbia, the AI company quietly powering 50% of the world’s largest asset managers and some of the fastest-growing law firms. George reveals how Hebbia’s Matrix platform is automating the equivalent of 50,…

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AI Eats the World: Benedict Evans on What Really Matters Now 1:15:09

3M ago1:15:09

1:15:09

What if the “AI revolution” is actually… stuck in the messy middle? In this episode, Benedict Evans returns to tackle the big question we left hanging a year ago: Is AI a true paradigm shift, or just another tech platform shift like mobile or cloud? One year later, the answer is more complicated — and more revealing — than anyone expected. Benedict…

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Episode 349: Stat Swapping 58:37

3M ago58:37

58:37

Join Peter and Frank as we talk about stat replacement effects: what are they? how do they work? are they worth it? That sort of thing! Amazing logo courtesy of this guy Join Drawn to the Flame on Patreon: www.patreon.com/drawntotheflame Buy Drawn to the Flame shirts, jumpers and mugs: www.designbyhumans.com/shop/drawntotheflame Email us on drawnto…

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Jeremy Howard on Building 5,000 AI Products with 14 People (Answer AI Deep-Dive) 55:02

3M ago55:02

55:02

What happens when you try to build the “General Electric of AI” with just 14 people? In this episode, Jeremy Howard reveals the radical inside story of Answer AI — a new kind of AI R&D lab that’s not chasing AGI, but instead aims to ship thousands of real-world products, all while staying tiny, open, and mission-driven. Jeremy shares how open-sourc…

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Why Influx Rebuilt Its Database for the IoT and Robotics Explosion 35:35

3M ago35:35

35:35

InfluxDB just dropped its biggest update ever — InfluxDB 3.0 — and in this episode, we go deep with the team behind the world’s most popular open-source time series database. You’ll hear the inside story of how InfluxDB grew from 3,000 users in 2015 to over 1.3 million today, and why the company decided to rewrite its entire architecture from scrat…

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Episode 348: OBOY 42:32

3M ago42:32

42:32

Join Frank and Peter as we take an eighth first look at the player cards of The Drowned City Investigator Expansion (For Players). We've got the wheel out to spin (well, not really any more) to pick a class and we're diving in with our takes. This episode was recorded in one sitting with the previous episode, and we've snipped it up to make more ma…

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Dashboards Are Dead: Sigma’s BI Revolution for Trillion-Row Data 41:32

3M ago41:32

41:32

Sigma Computing recently hit $100M in ARR — planning on doubling revenue again this year— and in this episode, CEO Mike Palmer reveals exactly how they did it by throwing out the old BI playbook. We open with the provocative claim that “the world did not need another BI tool,” and dig into why the last 20 years of business intelligence have been “b…

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Episode 347: OBOY 59:33

3M ago59:33

59:33

Join Frank and Peter as we take a seventh first look at the player cards of The Drowned City Investigator Expansion (For Players). We've got the wheel out to spin (well, not really any more) to pick a class and we're diving in with our takes. Amazing logo courtesy of this guy Join Drawn to the Flame on Patreon: www.patreon.com/drawntotheflame Buy D…

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Glean’s Breakthrough: CEO Arvind Jain on Scaling AI Agents & Search 52:11

4M ago52:11

52:11

A week after OpenAI’s o3/o4-mini volleyed with Google’s Gemini 2.5 Flash, I sat down with Arvind Jain— ex-Google search luminary, Rubrik co-founder, and now CEO of Glean —just as his company released its agentic reasoning platform and swirled with rumors of a new round at a $7 billion valuation. We open on that whirlwind: why the model race is acce…

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Episode 346: IVED 1:14:01

4M ago1:14:01

1:14:01

Join Frank and Peter as we take a sixth first look at the player cards of The Drowned City Investigator Expansion (For Players). We've got the wheel out to spin to pick a class and we're diving in with our takes. Amazing logo courtesy of this guy Join Drawn to the Flame on Patreon: www.patreon.com/drawntotheflame Buy Drawn to the Flame shirts, jump…

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Box’s Big AI Leap: Aaron Levie on Agents & the Future of Work 1:15:46

4M ago1:15:46

1:15:46

In this episode, we sit down with Aaron Levie, CEO and co-founder of Box, for a wide-ranging conversation that’s equal parts insightful, technical, and fun. We kick things off with a candid discussion about what it’s like to be a public company CEO during times of volatility, and then rewind to the early days of Box — from dorm room experiments to …

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Snowflake CEO on Winning the AI Arms Race 1:23:41

4M ago1:23:41

1:23:41

In this episode, we sit down with Sridhar Ramaswamy, CEO of Snowflake, for an in-depth conversation about the company’s transformation from a cloud analytics platform into a comprehensive AI data cloud. Sridhar shares insights on Snowflake’s shift toward open formats like Apache Iceberg and why monetizing storage was, in his view, a strategic misst…

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Chasing Real AGI: Inside ARC Prize 2025 with Chollet & Knoop 1:00:45

4M ago1:00:45

1:00:45

In this fascinating episode, we dive deep into the race towards true AI intelligence, AGI benchmarks, test-time adaptation, and program synthesis with star AI researcher (and philosopher) Francois Chollet, creator of Keras and the ARC AGI benchmark, and Mike Knoop, co-founder of Zapier and now co-founder with Francois of both the ARC Prize and the …

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Episode 345: SARR 1:07:18

4M ago1:07:18

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Join Frank and Peter as we take a fifth first look at the player cards of The Drowned City Investigator Expansion (For Players). We've got the wheel out to spin to pick a class and we're diving in with our takes. Amazing logo courtesy of this guy Join Drawn to the Flame on Patreon: www.patreon.com/drawntotheflame Buy Drawn to the Flame shirts, jump…

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Why This Ex-Meta Leader is Rethinking AI Infrastructure | Lin Qiao, CEO, Fireworks AI 59:14

4M ago59:14

59:14

In 2022, Lin Qiao decided to leave Meta, where she was managing several hundred engineers, to start Fireworks AI. In this episode, we sit down with Lin for a deep dive on her work, starting with her leadership on PyTorch, now one of the most influential machine learning frameworks in the industry, powering research and production at scale across th…

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Episode 344: TYHA 1:02:40

5M ago1:02:40

1:02:40

Join Frank and Peter as we take a fourth first look at the player cards of The Drowned City Investigator Expansion (For Players). We've got the wheel out to spin to pick a class and we're diving in with our takes. Amazing logo courtesy of this guy Join Drawn to the Flame on Patreon: www.patreon.com/drawntotheflame Buy Drawn to the Flame shirts, jum…

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Episode 343: EDCI 1:11:12

5M ago1:11:12

1:11:12

Join Frank and Peter as we take a third first look at the player cards of The Drowned City Investigator Expansion (For Players). We've got the wheel out to spin to pick a class and we're diving in with our takes. Amazing logo courtesy of this guy Join Drawn to the Flame on Patreon: www.patreon.com/drawntotheflame Buy Drawn to the Flame shirts, jump…

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Episode 342: ROWN 1:05:55

5M ago1:05:55

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Join Frank and Peter as we take a second first look at the player cards of The Drowned City Investigator Expansion (For Players). We've got the wheel out to spin to pick a class and we're diving in with our takes. Amazing logo courtesy of this guy Join Drawn to the Flame on Patreon: www.patreon.com/drawntotheflame Buy Drawn to the Flame shirts, jum…

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Top AI Researcher on GPT 4.5, DeepSeek and Agentic RAG | Douwe Kiela, CEO, Contextual AI 50:44

5M ago50:44

50:44

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) has become a dominant architecture in modern AI deployments, and in this episode, we sit down with Douwe Kiela, who co-authored the original RAG paper in 2020. Douwe is now the founder and CEO of Contextual AI, a startup focusing on helping enterprises deploy RAG as an agentic system. We start the conversation w…

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Episode 341: THED 1:02:53

5M ago1:02:53

1:02:53

Join Frank and Peter as we take a first look at the player cards of The Drowned City Investigator Expansion (For Players). We've got the wheel out to spin to pick a class and we're diving in with our takes. Amazing logo courtesy of this guy Join Drawn to the Flame on Patreon: www.patreon.com/drawntotheflame Buy Drawn to the Flame shirts, jumpers an…

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Episode 340: Rotation 1:04:34

5M ago1:04:34

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Join Frank and Peter as they talk about the newly announced current and legacy environments for Arkham Horror, the retirements on the horizon, or what we might term 'rotation'. What does it mean for the game? What will the community impact be? What do we know so far? Amazing logo courtesy of this guy Join Drawn to the Flame on Patreon: www.patreon.…

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Empowering Millions of Creators with AI Video Editing | Gaurav Misra, CEO, Captions 1:13:14

6M ago1:13:14

1:13:14

In this episode, we dive into how AI is transforming video editing with Gaurav Misra, the CEO of Captions. Launched in New York in 2021, Captions already empowers over 10 million creators worldwide, leveraging AI to make video production as simple as clicking a button. Discover the strategic framework that led to the inception of Captions, and lear…

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Farewell, Chatbots: AI Agents Are Taking Over Customer Service | Mike Murchison, CEO, Ada 1:11:27

6M ago1:11:27

1:11:27

AI customer service agents are quickly replacing the often clunky AI chatbots of years past, and revolutionizing how we all interact with customer service. In this episode, we dive into this rapid transformation with Mike Murchison, CEO of Ada, a fast-growing leader in the space. Mike shares how harnessing the power of several Generative AI models …

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The AI Coding Agent Revolution, The Future of Software, Techno-Optimism | Amjad Masad, CEO, Replit 1:29:39

6M ago1:29:39

1:29:39

Replit is one of the most visible and exciting companies reshaping how we approach software and application development in the Generative AI era. In this episode, we sit down with its CEO, Amjad Masad, for an in-depth discussion on all things AI, agents, and software. Amjad shares the journey of building Replit, from its humble beginnings as a stud…

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Episode 339: Drowning in Lore 1:20:44

6M ago1:20:44

1:20:44

Join Peter and Frank as they talk about some of the things on Duke's mood board for The Drowned City. When we spoke to Duke last year, he mentioned a range of media and we've jumped in to look at The Call of Cthulhu, The Doom that Came to Sarnath, Arrival, Prometheus, Alien: Covenant, Scavengers Reign and Evil Dead, and talk about them all and how …

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Trino, Iceberg and the Battle for the Lakehouse | Justin Borgman, CEO, Starburst 1:06:24

6M ago1:06:24

1:06:24

In this episode, we explore the cutting-edge world of data infrastructure with Justin Borgman, CEO of Starburst — a company transforming data analytics through its open-source project, Trino, and empowering industry giants like Netflix, Airbnb, and LinkedIn. Justin takes us through Starburst’s journey from a Yale University spin-out to a leading fo…

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Understanding Data Engineering in 2025 | Ben Rogojan, Seattle Data Guy 1:02:24

7M ago1:02:24

1:02:24

As AI takes over the world, data is more than ever “the new oil”, and data engineering is the discipline that makes data usable behind the scenes. In this episode, we dive deep into the present and future of data engineering with Ben Rogojan, also known as the Seattle Data Guy. A seasoned data engineering consultant, Ben has built a big brand and r…

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Episode 338: Drowning in Previews 1:03:48

7M ago1:03:48

1:03:48

Join Frank and Peter as they take stock of preview season so far. What's catching their eye with The Drowned City? What are the new investigators like? What does the return of myriad augur? NB: this episode was recorded in early January 2025, so we weren't privvy to the full Drowned City set, let alone all the previews at the time of recording. See…

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What You MUST Know About AI Engineering in 2025 | Chip Huyen, Author of “AI Engineering” 1:12:35

7M ago1:12:35

1:12:35

In this episode, we dive deep into the world of AI engineering with Chip Huyen, author of the excellent, newly released book "AI Engineering: Building Applications with Foundation Models". We explore the nuances of AI engineering, distinguishing it from traditional machine learning, discuss how foundational models make it possible for anyone to bui…

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Episode 337: Grim Resolve 39:21

7M ago39:21

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Join Peter and Frank as they look ahead at 2025: what are our Arkham intentions? What do we think The Drowned City will bring to Arkham? And what are our gaming intentions and hopes more generally? Amazing logo courtesy of this guy Join Drawn to the Flame on Patreon: www.patreon.com/drawntotheflame Buy Drawn to the Flame shirts, jumpers and mugs: w…

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Episode 336: FHVFHV III 20:31

7M ago20:31

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Join Frank as he talks about FHVFHV for the third time - we're talking Wilson's finale, Kate's longest night, a new investigator begins their survey and much, much more. Enjoy! Here's the FHVFHV sheet: here. Amazing logo courtesy of this guy Join Drawn to the Flame on Patreon: www.patreon.com/drawntotheflame Buy Drawn to the Flame shirts, jumpers a…

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Episode 335: Think on your Feet XLVIII 1:12:58

7M ago1:12:58

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Tune in for Think on your Feet XLVII, in which the play through of The Innsmouth Conspiracy, featuring Subject 5U-21, concludes. In Think on your Feet episodes, a live play series, I endeavour not to edit much at all. Sometimes I cut some shuffling sounds or abbreviate some of my longer pauses (a chap's got to think!), but otherwise, it's uncut, un…

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Dataiku's Secret to Scaling AI in Global Enterprises | Florian Douetteau, CEO, Dataiku 53:06

8M ago53:06

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In this episode, we sit down with Florian Douetteau, co-founder and CEO of Dataiku, a global category leader in enterprise AI and a fixture on the Forbes Cloud 100 list and in the Gartner Leader Quadrant. Florian shares his journey from a Parisian student fascinated by functional programming to leading a global enterprise software company. We discu…

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Episode 334: Nyarlathotep's Grand Feast 1:39:18

8M ago1:39:18

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Join Frank and Peter for the third and final part of an extended interview with Azathoth's replacement Nyarlathotep, aka Duke Harrist, the lead designer of Arkham Horror LCG. In this episode, we talk to Duke about The Feast of Hemlock Vale campaign. We work our way through every scenario in the campaign, as well as its influences, the tone he wante…

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Episode 333: Visions of Futures Past XXVII 1:06:29

8M ago1:06:29

1:06:29

Join Peter and Frank for Visions of Futures Past, our occasional series of episodes where we preview cards for Arkham Horror. In this episode: it's The Drowned City, with our look at some previews sent to us by FFG. Thanks FFG! We hope you like the cards. Amazing logo courtesy of this guy Join Drawn to the Flame on Patreon: www.patreon.com/drawntot…

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Building the Easy Button for Generative AI | May Habib, CEO, Writer 35:52

9M ago35:52

35:52

In this episode, we dive into the world of generative AI with May Habib, co-founder of Writer, a platform transforming enterprise AI use. May shares her journey from Qordoba to Writer, emphasizing the impact of transformers in AI. We explore Writer's graph-based RAG approach, and their AI Studio for building custom applications. We also discuss Wri…

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Episode 332: Nyarlathotep's Many-Coloured Pie 53:08

9M ago53:08

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Join Frank and Peter for the second part of an extended interview with Azathoth's replacement Nyarlathotep, aka Duke Harrist, the lead designer of Arkham Horror LCG. In this episode, we talk to Duke about the player cards of The Feast of Hemlock Vale. We take more of a look at the state of the classes in Arkham and the places Duke wanted to bring n…

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State of AI 2024: Frontier Models, AI Geopolitics and The Robotics Renaissance | Nathan Benaich, Founder, Air Street Capital 51:39

9M ago51:39

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Nathan Benaich, founder and GP at VC firm Air Street Capital, publishes every year "State of AI", one of the most widely-read and comprehensive reports on all things AI across research, industry, and policy. In this episode, we sit down with Nathan to discuss some of the highlights of the 2024 edition of the report, including the "vibes" shift in t…

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